The purpose for doing a community profile can vary enormously but is normally orientated towards preparing the ground for an effective piece of community action. By listening to a community through doing a community profile any subsequent action is likely to be more rooted, more productive and more sympathetic to what is already going on. This depends on how the community profile is done, who owns it and how it is followed up. Some Forms of Community Profiling Individual action research This is most likely done by an individual minister or community worker who is new to the neighbourhood. The profile will enable the worker to orientate themself and begin to identify what might be fruitful avenues in which to put their effort.
Practitioners working in this way have to work in collaboration - helping people to do things for themselves. In this way, people can become co-producers of support, not passive consumers of support. The evidence for strengths-based approaches is difficult to synthesise because of the different populations and problem areas that are examined in the literature. The strengths approach to practice has broad applicability across a number of practice settings
In order to create sustainable community development, Hopkins (2008) stated that it involves the ability to work with others from different experiences to close the gap of social capital. Creating and continuing good relationships with local community’s members require ability to recognize personal differences. Beem (1999) mentioned that to build or rebuild community and trust among its members by utilizing social capital, it demands face-to-face communication. In terms of citizen participation and community design, it is essential to provide enough resources for a local community to work together to produce desirable outcomes that benefit the group members or the third party. This mutual opportunity to share knowledge on public issues offer
It can assist people in a circle of support to re-frame their views of the person it is focused on. It can help a group to solve difficult problems. Person-centered planning can help to create new lifestyles, find the right living enviroment and jobs, diverse kinds of support (informal and formal)and new social relationships. There are four main approaches to person centred practice, “Pathway” planning, “Maps” planning, “Person centred portfolios” and “Personal Future Planning.” Discussion will prove that each shares characteristics that explicitly emphasise the personal empowerment of service users, in which the principal direction for support generates from those for whom planning is being carried
1.2 Explain how own role and practice can impact on communication with an individual who has specific communication needs. As a community support worker it is my role to ensure that I support and encourage individuals in everyday activities and promote their independence. My organisation also works in a user centred way whereby communication is key; so I must ensure the individual’s communication needs are met. If I do not follow the codes of practice set out by my employer and the GSCC then I will not be promoting and encouraging
3. Be able to evaluate own performance Use of feedback to evaluate own performance and inform development: feedback from others can develop own knowledge, skills and understanding and may include: identifying areas for improvement, increasing my capacity for problem solving, helping me to understand others` perspectives. 4. Be able to agree a personal development plan Sources of support: formal, informal, supervision, appraisal, within the organisation, beyond organisation Work with others to review and prioritise own learning: individual,
Coordinating and motivating people to perform joint work are key processes which determine group effectiveness (Steiner, 1972) and are therefore a focus of group facilitation. Groups perform a variety of tasks in everyday work life and are inevitably required to make decisions. In order to be efficient as a group, workers need to feel a sense of belonging to an organization (Maslow). However, the process of joint decision-making is not a straightforward endeavor and group decisions are often far from being ideal (Kolbe, 2007; Stasser & Titus, 2006). The group can make work-related decisions in a number of ways: Autocratic Decision Making, Democratic Decision Making and Consensus Decision Making.
Social therapy, the community are encouraged to contribute and to involve in the project in a volunteer way. 5. Grass-roots radicalism, the participation is the way for disadvantage group in community to challenge the domination of government system and injustice system which influence their lives. 2.2.2.3 Bishop and Davis Model Participation is shaped by the policy problem, the techniques and resources availability. The political judgment may also influence the participation.
Chemers M (1997) showed that leadership has been described as the "process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of common tasks". As a result it might have significant influences to the efforts and motivation of employees on their working performance. In addition, leadership can build; influence and changing the organizational culture and it might contribute to the establishment of the organizational culture. One of the primary responsibilities of strategic leader is to create working
Our reality is not our own, but influenced by others Our reality is definitely one that is shared with and influenced by the people in our community. In other words we rely on other people and the groups we associate with to make us truly understand of our own identity as a person. To see why that is the case we need to first look at the definition of “reality” and “influence”. In this case the term “reality” refers to a person’s identity and the qualities that makes them different from others, whilst “influence” is the impact that another person or group have in shaping of a person’s reality. On the other hand however, we don’t always find that our identity is influenced by others.